EPA subpoenas Halliburton over fracking fluids | Reuters

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems doubtful that the writers of the new Battlestar Galactica
> franchise (recently canceled, apparently) had much of an idea that
> "fracking" is a real word.
>

I've never watched BsG. What does "fracking" mean as used in the BsG context?

FWIW, I once had no idea that _arse_ was a real word. As a child, back
in the '40's, I "invented" it as a cover for _ass_.

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